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Sudan: Muslim mob burns Catholic parish

April 23, 2012

Shouting insults, a mob of several hundred Muslims set fire to a Catholic parish in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, on the evening of April 21. The arson comes amid escalating conflict between Sudan, which is overwhelmingly Muslim, and the largely Christian and animist South Sudan.

 

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  • Posted by: fred3885 - Apr. 24, 2012 3:33 AM ET USA

    This must be a mistake, Islam is a religion of peace

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Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the…

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